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Our Compendium of the Week's Wind Energy News

News Articles

Moscow-Pullman Daily News
August 7, 2010
Banking on Wind Power in Whitman County
Sarah Mason

"I think most farmers on the Palouse, we've fought the wind for enough, it'd be nice if we got something out of it," Hanson said. "I've watched crop blowing away on a wind storm. There's been a tremendous amount of detriment because of the wind, so this is a nice turnaround I guess you'd say."

Hanson said participating with First Wind is not only a chance to be a part of "alternative energy solutions," but said the money First Wind pays him to lease his land could help future Hanson generations thrive on the farm.

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La Grande Observer
August 6, 2010
Opinions Vary at Hearing on Wind Farm Advisory Note
Bill Rautenstrauch

The Union County Board of Commissioners is considering polling the public on whether the board should take a position for or against the proposed wind farm, a 300-megawatt facility Horizon Wind Energy wants to build in the Craig Mountain area near Union.

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The Dalles Chronicle
August 4, 2010
Oregon Community Develops Wind Farm
Keri Brenner

Ormand Hilderbrand says he "now knows the real meaning of 'going for broke'" after spending five years working to launch Oregon's first small, independently developed wind farm.

"You have to have a vision and you have to stick to it," said Hilderbrand, 59, an entrepreneur whose family has farmed dryland wheat in the Mid-Columbia region east of the town of Wasco since the 1860s. "If you have the least bit of doubt, you won't get it done."

Construction started in June on the first of six wind turbines at Hilderbrand's 9-megawatt capacity PaTu Wind Farm.

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Business to Business
August 1, 2010
Continuing the County Energy Legacy
Paula Collucci

Wind turbines are expected to generate electricity at the Coyote Crest Wind Energy Park in the fall of 2011.

Coyote Crest will be the result of several private and public entities, cities, counties, ports, states and even countries' efforts - all culminating to form this energy park right here in Lewis County.

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